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Catholicon
 
  Catholicon may refer to:

  • Katholikon
    Katholikon

    A Katholikon is the major temple of a monastery, or diocese in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The name derives from the fact that it is the largest temple where all gather together to celebrate the major feast days of the liturgical year....
    , the primary church in an Orthodox or Eastern Catholic monastery
  • Catholicon (religious dictionary)
    Catholicon (religious dictionary)

    The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon, was completed March 7, 1286 by John Balbi , of Genoa, a Dominican order....
    , written in 1286 by Johannes Januensis de Balbis (Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon)
  • Catholicon (Mor Yakub), part of the Holy Liturgy of Mor Yakub
    Jacob Baradaeus

    Jacobus Baradaeus or James Baradaeus , was ordained by the Miaphysitism bishop of Edessa, Mesopotamia , with ecumenical authority over the members of their body throughout the East....
     of the Syriac Orthodox Church
  • Catholicon (Breton dictionary), Breton-Latin-French dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc and printed in 1499
  • Catholicon (electuary)
    Catholicon (electuary)

    In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities ; or a purgative of all humorism....
    , an alleged all-purpose cure used in pre-modern medicine
  • Catholicon is also another word for Panacea
    Panacea

    In Greek mythology, Panacea was the goddess of healing. She was the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, god of healing ....
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